“I Don’t Know How We Would Make It”—Social Support in Rural Low-Income Families

2011 ◽  
pp. 157-183 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sharon B. Seiling ◽  
Margaret M. Manoogian ◽  
Seohee Son
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Know How ◽  
Low Income Families

scholarly journals Improvement of the targeted social support of low-income families with children: Vologda Pilot Project

POPULATION ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 106-121
Author(s):  
Vyacheslav Bobkov
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Social Assistance ◽  
Minimum Income ◽  
Lump Sum ◽  
Subsistence Minimum ◽  
Regional Budget ◽  
Low Income Families ◽  
Families With Children ◽  
Guaranteed Minimum Income

The article deals with the theoretical, methodical and practical principles of forming a new model of targeted social support of low-income families with children on the basis of guaranteed minimum income. Approbation of the new approaches to targeted social support of low-income families with children was implemented in Vologda oblast. The target representative sample was 70 families. It has been found out that after the targeted social support under the current legislation (lump-sum payments excluded), basic income in these families averaged 35.3 per cent of the differentiated equivalent subsistence minimum, thus being evidence of the inefficient state social assistance. The author has substantiated introducing additional monthly targeted social payments to parents besides the set regular payments (additional family poverty benefit) that will enable families to improve their economic sustainability. He substantiated a number of threshold values of the guaranteed minimum income that would ensure current consumption ranging from the cost food basket up to the size of the differentiated equivalent living standards of families, depending on the financial capacity of the regional budget. The guaranteed minimum income of low-income families with children averaged 54.6 per cent of the regional differentiated equivalent subsistence minimum. There have been developed methodical recommendations for identifying untapped socio-economic potential of families as a source of raising income from employment, as well as criteria for removal of families from the recipients of targeted social assistance in the form of cash benefits. Proposals on correcting the current legislation on the state social support have been formulated.

The Role of Social Support Networks in Helping Low Income Families through Uncertain Times

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine Hill ◽  
Donald Hirsch ◽  
Abigail Davis
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Longitudinal Research ◽  
Safety Net ◽  
Support Networks ◽  
Social Support Networks ◽  
State Support ◽  
Hard Times ◽  
Low Income Families

In times of labour market insecurity and retrenchment of state support, low income families rely on friends and relatives as a safety net. This article explores the enhanced role of this ‘third source of welfare’ in light of these developments. It draws on qualitative longitudinal research to demonstrate how families’ situations fluctuate over two years and the importance of social support networks in hard times and periods of crisis. The research illustrates how social support is not necessarily a stable structure that families facing insecurity can fall back on, but rather a variable resource, and fluid over time, as those who provide such support experience changing capabilities and needs. A policy challenge is to help reinforce and not undermine the conditions that enable valuable social support to be offered and sustained, while ensuring sufficient reliable state support to avoid families having no choice but to depend on this potentially fragile resource as a safety net.

Family

Child Poverty ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 39-56
Author(s):  
Morag C. Treanor
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Child Poverty ◽  
Children And Families ◽  
Ideal Family ◽  
The Family ◽  
Low Income Families ◽  
Poor Children

Chapter three takes a critically informed look at the role of families, and children’s position within families, in understanding child poverty and disadvantage. It looks at the role of social support and gendered relationships and examines how families are not value-free environments. Family life under conditions of disadvantage tends to be pathologised and denigrated: parents who are ‘poor’ are frequently situated as ‘poor parents’. Low income families are particularly vulnerable to categorisation as ‘troubled families’ or troublesome families (Ribbens McCarthy et al 2013). This chapter looks at the myths and realities of family life at the bottom of the income structure, how children understand, negotiate and mediate poverty in family life and their experiences and agency within the family. It also considers how wealthier families, who are held up as the benchmark of the ideal family, reinforce and perpetuate the disadvantage of poor children and families by employing their superior resources to confer (further) advantage onto their own children.

The contribution of social support to the material well-being of low-income families

2005 ◽  
Vol 67 (1) ◽  
pp. 122-140 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia R. Henly ◽  
Sandra K. Danziger ◽  
Shira Offer
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Low Income Families

Le povertŕ delle classi medie e dei "ceti popolari"

2009 ◽  
pp. 25-52
Author(s):  
Remo Siza
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Living Conditions ◽  
Social Classes ◽  
Dynamic Approach ◽  
Short Period ◽  
Low Income Families ◽  
Socially Isolated ◽  
Social Area

- Several studies carried out using a dynamic approach show that poverty, although at different degrees of intensity and duration, is no longer an issue concerning only a defined portion of the population living in typically disadvantaged circumstances (e.g. in deprived areas), but is increasingly affecting other social classes that would normally benefit from adequate living conditions, including the growing poorer middle class and those with insecure or low paid jobs. We are not just referring to socially isolated groups of people, but to an intermediate heterogeneous social area, a dissimilar aggregate of individuals experiencing different trajectories of social mobility: members of the impoverished middle class, low income families reduced to poverty by different life events, people with unstable jobs and inadequate family and social support. Although with a different background, they have in common a more lasting precarious condition and a higher risk of poverty compared to other members of the middle class who can rely on better incomes and stronger social support and to the wealthier social classes. These social groups share, at least for a short period of their life, very difficult living conditions potentially affecting several aspects of their existence and limited resources to rely upon to sustain their life projects.

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